Mining Guide

Mining 1-375

What you’re going to need:
The mining skill - Go see your local mining trainer to get trained.
A mining pick – You don't have to have it equipped to mine but you must have it in your bags.

Extras:

• Get a pair of gloves enchanted with +5 mining skill (it takes 3 x Truesilver Bars and 3 x Vision Dust).
• If you’re an engineer then make yourself a Goblin Mining Helmet (Goblin Mining Helmet) as this will add +5 to your mining skill.

Mining 1 - 65
Mining Copper
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 30
Mine about 50 copper and smelt it (this levels you the rest of the way).

Mining 66 – 125
Mining Tin, Silver, Incendicite and Lesser Bloodstone
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 60

Mining 126 – 175
Mining Iron and Gold
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 100
*At level 125, go back to the mining trainer and learn Expert Mining.
Some places to look for iron and gold mines (Alliance and Horde) are:

• Desolace
• Ashenvale
• Badlands
• Alterac Mountains
• Stranglethorn Vale
• Swamp of Sorrows

Mining 176 – 250
Mining Mithril and Truesilver
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 125
*At level 225, go back to the mining trainer and learn Artisan Mining.
To find Mithril and Truesilver mines, look in:

• Blasted Lands
• Badlands
• The Hinterlands
• Western Plaguelands
• Azshara
• Winterspring
• Felwood
• Stonetalon Mountains (Charred Vale)
• Desolace

Mining 251 – 300
Mining Thorium
Estimated number of nodes to mine = 160
To find Thorium veins, look in:

• Un'Goro Crater
• Azshara
• Winterspring
• Blasted Lands
• Searing Gorge
• Burning Steppes
• Western Plaguelands

If you have the Burning Crusade expansion, you will be able to travel to the Outlands and train in mining past 300 with a maximum skill of 375.

Mining 300 – 375
Fel iron ore is green up to 375, so 300-375 can be done in Hellfire Peninsula easily.